May 2026, Part 1 Part 2
Right now, when the world feels topsy-turvy, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them!
Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase extraordinary pieces personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Take a look. You’re bound to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Mia Chen (click the name for email)
Artist: Betsy Hershberg
Retail price: US$940
This piece is two-in-one because it is reversible! Betsy Hershberg’s work showcases and celebrates the versatility of hand knitting. Each piece features hand-knitting techniques at its core. She utilizes traditional plain or bead-knitted stitch-making, as well as a unique bead-knitting technique of her own invention, which she calls abacus bead knitting. She also employs off-loom bead weaving, embroidery, or other methods of surface embellishment to enhance the textural and architectural variety of the work. Most often comprised of fine fibers and small beads, Hershberg’s work has substance without weight, making a statement while remaining comfortable and easy to wear. All work is one-of-a-kind. See both sides of the piece here.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Meg Nash (click the name for email)
Artist: Märta Mattsson
Retail price: US$2,850
Märta Mattson’s work evokes a sense of awe and wonder, as cicada wings are given a new life with glitter and resin. “My jewelry deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion,” she says. “I take seemingly inappropriate materials, making ordinary and familiar objects seem extraordinary and unfamiliar.” This jaw-dropping statement necklace will be featured in Pistachios’s summer exhibition, Mystic Meadows.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J Diamond (click the name for email)
Artist: Andy Lowrie
Retail price: US$125
Andy Lowrie is a jewelry artist who makes wearable, sculptural, and functional objects, as well as works on paper. He is an Australian maker living and working in the United States. His work draws on the power of a wearable object to act as an extension of a maker (his own) and wearer’s intentions and desires. He is driven by material and process and uses narratives of queerness, family, labor, and environmental catastrophe in his work.
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Agathe Saint Girons
Retail price: US$3,500
Agathe Saint Girons has been a consistently eclectic force in jewelry for over 35 years. From her studio in Paris, she works in a variety of mediums: from metal (notably titanium), sterling silver, aluminum, glass, found objects, and her vivid imagination—influenced by her wondrous sense of humor. This sculptural object/ring, Drive Me Crazy, was in the exhibition Dinner Is Served, shown in Paris at Elsa Vanier Gallery and in NYC at MAD museum and NYCJW24. * Ships after November 15, 2026.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Catarina Silva
Retail price: 2,000€
Catarina Silva brings us to a dreamlike and surreal dimension. Her pieces often assemble unexpected materials into amulets that hover between the archaic and the contemporary. Love tokens, glass beads, and everyday symbols are recomposed into objects that recall the rhythms of ancient chants, the repetitions of spells, and the intimacy of secret offerings.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Felicia Mülbaier
Retail price: CAN$3,950
Felicia Mülbaier meticulously sculpts lapis lazuli. She shapes the material to offer us poetic, vibrant, and imaginative works. Entitled Fluttering Wings, this brooch is a testament to exactly that.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jane Bowden
Retail price: (Front) AUS$3,040, (back) AUS$3,610
These stacking rings by Jane Bowden explore balance through contrast—weight and lightness, geometry and touch. Composed of distinct, interchangeable elements, each holds a different formal language: a sharply faceted, architectural block in dialogue with a softened, circular form. Worn alone, each is resolved; stacked, they become a small, evolving structure—quietly architectural, tactile, and responsive to the hand that composes them.
Gallery: InterFusion Art, Santa Fe, NM, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Team (click for email)
Artist: Kate Cusack
Retail price: US$1,200
Kate Cusack’s Red/Black Loci Necklace is a striking statement piece, hand-crafted from zippers that intertwine into bold, sculptural forms with vivid red-and-black contrast. This inventive design creates an unexpected graphic rhythm that feels playful and collectible. Based in Brooklyn, Cusack is renowned for her zipper jewelry and wearable art.
Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: 850€
Gallium rests inside a hollow cabochon of frosted rock crystal, its presence revealed when the quartz is wet. Solid below 30 degrees Celsius, it turns liquid with warmth, shifting like a living inclusion. Unlike mercury, gallium is not toxic to humans, yet it aggressively weakens metals such as aluminum. It’s used in electronics and certain defense applications, such as nuclear weapons. Here, it behaves as both material and metaphor, potentially interacting with the surrounding silver. It is also a small wink to Peter Skubic and Peter Bauhuis, who explored the use of this metal.
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click for email)
Artist: Morgan Hill
Retail price: US$490
Morgan Hill is a sculptor and jewelry designer whose work draws on a wide range of aesthetic and conceptual influences, from 90s pop culture, campy cinema, and costume design to her Southern, Christian upbringing and experiences as the only female child in an extended family of farmers in Arkansas. Her longing to break the silence surrounding culturally censured topics drives her to create work on themes of death, abuse, depression, and suicide, as well as their counterparts of rebirth, healing, and empowerment. On the lighter side, her jewelry brand, Bad Habits by Morgan Hill, celebrates the pleasure of excess and indulged desires.
Gallery: Galerie MiniMasterpiece, Paris, France (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Esther de Beaucé (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Giorgio Vigna
Retail price: 2,500€ (excluding VAT)
Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955. His work evokes the interplay of earth and water, fire and wind, blending the natural and the artificial, the humble and the precious. Over time, his magnetic brooches have become an iconic piece of jewelry. A unique technique and a distinctive design language making them signature pieces.
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